80 COLEOPTERA. 



Not a single rarity beyond their own wants. The syco- 

 phant's booty has not yet yielded even an ill-set broken speci- 

 men in excess of six comely individuals, styled a duplicate ; 

 nor has Hetcerius been proffered to wealthy provincial 

 clients, notwithstanding that the mercenary and his myrmi- 

 don both toiled whole summer days at the destruction of the 

 " light loamy bank with aspect to the west," once a world of 

 life, but now a wilderness. 



" , quserenda pecunia primum est; 



Virtus post nummos." — Hor. Epist. I. i. 52. 



get insects, insects still, 



And then let virtue follow, if she will." — Pope {adapted). 



Claviger testaceus, Preyssler, has been captured, in the 

 spring, on the Kentish Downs, by Mr. Wollaston ; in Ire- 

 land, in the autumn, by Dr. Power, and in the neighbour- 

 hood of Plymouth by Mr. J. J. Reading ; specimens from 

 the latter localities are before me. 



When shall I have the pleasure of recording, or of seeing 

 recorded, C. longicornis as a British-born subject ? 



Myrmedonia limbata, Paykull, of which I have oc- 

 sionally met with a solitary individual in the purlieus of the 

 nests of Formica Jlava, has been found by my colleague, 

 Mr. Edwin Shepherd, in comparative plenty, associated with 

 Formica fusca j in Kent in July, by whom a single specimen 

 was likewise taken in a nest of Formica fuliyinosa, near 

 Croydon in the spring. 



Myrmedonia humeralis, Grav. Sparingly with Formica 

 rvfa in the spring, near Plymouth, by Mr. J. J. Reading, 

 and, in company with Formica fuliginosa, in Kent, by Dv. 

 Power. 



